----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lior Vernia" <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected] List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2014 8:18:41 PM > Subject: [ovirt-users] oVirt 3.5 test day - OptaPlanner integration > > In this test day I was to test the SLA team's OptaPlanner integration. > > Some background for those who aren't familiar with the feature: the > problem of finding an optimal solution for VM scheduling/balancing is > NP-hard, therefore for large deployment it is only feasible to find > approximately optimal solutions. > > OptaPlanner is a very nice utility that contains a lot of approximation > algorithms for computationally-hard problems such as scheduling, so the > plan is for oVirt to use OptaPlanner (running on a dedicated machine) to > "hint" to the administrator where to migrate VMs to achieve more optimal > placement on hosts; "optimality" is with respect to cluster policy. > > Unfortunately, due to some technical difficulties and a lack of > documentation, I did not manage to get very far - only verified that > when the OptaPlanner machine and oVirt engine are properly configured, > the new tab under cluster appears and shows output from the OptaPlanner. > > The feature page mainly documented the implementation of the feature, > but contained no information on what had to be installed or any example > testing scenarios. However, msivak (feature owner) was very responsive > and updated the feature page as soon as these gaps were discovered, so > now it's clear how to configure a deployment to use OptaPlanner. > > Hopefully I'll be able to further test the feature soon, and at the very > latest during the next test day. > > Yours, Lior.
Thanks Lior, please keep updating. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
